Jon Prosser Says He’s Been In ‘active Communication’ With Apple Over Lawsuit

Although Apple said successful a caller tribunal filing that Jon Prosser has “still has not” replied to nan company’s July suit against him for allegedly stealing waste and acquisition secrets, Prosser tells The Verge that he is successful connection pinch Apple astir nan case.

“All I tin show you is that sloppy of what is being reported, and sloppy of what nan tribunal documents opportunity — I have, successful fact, been successful progressive communications pinch Apple since nan opening stages of this case,” Prosser says. “The conception that I’m ignoring nan lawsuit is incorrect. That’s each I americium capable to say.”

Last week, a clerk entered a default against Prosser, indicating that he hadn’t responded to nan July suit and allowing nan lawsuit to spell ahead. In its request for introduction of default, Apple’s ineligible counsel says that nan institution personally served Prosser nan suit successful July and notified him of nan August 19th deadline to respond. He did not respond by that date, and “despite Apple’s aggregate inquiries to Mr. Prosser astir whether he would beryllium responding to nan Complaint, Mr. Prosser still has not done so,” according to nan filing.

In its lawsuit, Apple alleged that Prosser and different defendant, Michael Ramacciotti, had a “coordinated scheme” to “steal Apple’s waste and acquisition secrets, and profit from nan theft.” According to nan complaint, Ramacciotti collapsed into a improvement iPhone utilized by a friend that worked astatine Apple, called Prosser complete video, and “demonstrated respective features and applications” of iOS 19, which was officially named iOS 26. Ahead of the announcement of nan software, Prosser published videos highlighting changes to things for illustration nan Camera app and showing elements of what would later beryllium revealed arsenic nan Liquid Glass creation language. 

Apple didn’t instantly reply to a petition for comment.